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- French · borrowed fromraffinose
- English todayraffinose
From French raffinose, from raffiner (“to refine”) + -ose (“a saccharide”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
raffinose
Today it means: A trisaccharide, composed of galactose, glucose and fructose, that is widely distributed in many plants. Full definition →
French raffinose